If you ever write any sort of research paper, you are likely to need an abstract. But what is an abstract for? What should go into one? What makes one effective? This resource will provide a brief ...

An abstract is a concise, compelling statement that summarises a larger piece of work. They are useful for researchers to select relevant evidence, and for indexing purposes by search databases. By ...

This blog introduces a series of occasional blogs that will investigate the accuracy of abstracts of journal articles. As we will see in the series, abstracts are often quite misleading and tend to ...